Lodz University of Technology (PŁ) has become the leader of a consortium of universities from Europe and Asia, which received a million euros for the implementation of new training programs in the field of automation and power engineering in Nepal, Bhutan and Indonesia.

The application was submitted in a competition for capacity building in the higher education sector in the so-called Erasmus + central action, directly to the Executive Agency in Brussels. Only 163 of 840 projects were accepted for funding and two of them are coordinated by Polish universities: Lodz University of Technology and the Jagiellonian University.

The main goal of the European-Asian consortium is to develop and implement new programs and didactic courses in the field of automation and power engineering, in particular intelligent power systems at universities in Nepal, Bhutan and Indonesia. The project also includes the construction of laboratory infrastructure.